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Correspondence between [Charles M. Berry], Inspector of Animals and Provisions, Board of Health, and Henry Kinchla regarding the quality of a sample of baked beans bought from a bakery in Somerville.

Correspondence between Mrs. James R. Gibson and Laurence Howard, Executive Clerk, regarding a complaint about a case of whooping cough in Mrs. Gibson's neighborhood.

Correspondence between K.L. Quinn, R.N., Superintendent of Public Health Nurses, City of Portland, Maine Health Department and Laurence Howard on May 28 and 29, 1930, regarding a case of opposition to diphtheria vaccination.

Letter of recommendations of Child Conservation effort during World War I.

Correspondence regarding Somerville's compliance with a law requiring cities to set up tuberculosis hospitals during World War I.

Recreation Department image of children's Halloween party. Children display their costumes for the contest photograph in the 1950s.

Recreation Department image of 1973 senior citizens event. Women dance at senior citizens event.

Pamphlet printed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health outlining the laws relative to bakeries and bakery products.

The minimum quarantine requirements recommended by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for prominent contagious diseases.

Recreation Department image of senior citizens event in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Women sit around a table and begin their meal of lobster and other sides.